Firmware update

[filburt1]

I need to upgade the firmware on my burner. Unfortunately, the manufacturer (LG) requires a floppy disk for it to work. Now that I've officially shunned floppys, I don't have a working drive anymore. Any idea on how I can flash the firmware? I tried making a boot CD but got lost.

To make the floppy, all you have to do is make a boot floppy and copy some files to it.

[MrNase]

ask a friend for a floppy drive


//edit: no disk without a drive

[f-a_org]

ask a friend for a floppy disk

He needs a floppy drive, I believe.

[merk]

I have a USB floppy drive should some backwards company or school (read: idiots) require the use of floppys.


How did you get lost making a boot floppy? Im pretty sure nero can make a "CDROM (BOOT)" as one of its options, did you try that?

[filburt1]

That is one of the options, but unfortunately it requires either a boot image file or a physical drive, neither of which works for me.

[Freddie Bingham]

You can find boot image files online that are pefectly legal.

[filburt1]

You're saying I can use a boot image of, for example, a Windows 98 boot disk, and then just drag the necessary files to the disc in Nero?

[Freddie Bingham]

No, you select Cd-rom (Boot) in Nero then you select "source of boot image data" -> Image File

In fact, my Nero seems to already have a dos boot image file included in the Nero directory. You would have to then throw your firmware onto the cd image and I am assuming the included boot image has cdrom drivers and and mscdex equivalent that will mount the cdrom so you can access the firmware from drive D:

[filburt1]

No, you select Cd-rom (Boot) in Nero then you select "source of boot image data" -> Image File

In fact, my Nero seems to already have a dos boot image file included in the Nero directory. You would have to then throw your firmware onto the cd image and I am assuming the included boot image has cdrom drivers and and mscdex equivalent that will mount the cdrom so you can access the firmware from drive D:

Thanks, I'll try it later, provided I can bring myself to rip apart various parts of my computer to put the burner on the IDE position the firmware updater demands

[Mr. X]

http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/

Heres a good resource too on making a DOS boot cd.

[Thomas P]

Yup, I second Mr. X's post.

Got me: I read "firmware update" on the search output page and thought for a sec: Man, how cool would it be to have firmware updates for your vb!
/me boots from disk to update vb

[merk]

Yup, I second Mr. X's post.

Got me: I read "firmware update" on the search output page and thought for a sec: Man, how cool would it be to have firmware updates for your vb!
/me boots from disk to update vb

I think thats a bit keen